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Gongol.com Archives: July 2018

There's no (reasonably) denying Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election.
There's no (reasonably) denying they're trying the same in 2018. And 2020. And 2022.
There's no (reasonably) denying that other states and non-state actors are trying, too.

Commentators like Brit Hume are seeking to argue that certain principled conservatives who stood against the election of Donald Trump are now "standing on a shrinking sliver of ground". After Charlottesville, family separations, and a nascent trade war with Canada...if you still think that people like Tim Miller are the problem, then you're the one missing the point.

The Chinese government is making opportunistic use of President Trump's indefensible trade aggression to try to wedge the US away from historic allies in Europe. It's an opportunistic tactic in service of a very long-term strategy. As Dwight Eisenhower put it: "So we are persuaded by necessity and by belief that the strength of all free peoples lies in unity; their danger, in discord."